The Holocaust is a very important part in history. Adolf Hitler was elected chancellor of Germany. Soon the Nazis took control of Germany. Adolf Hitler believed that Jews were sub Humans. First the Nazis boycotted all the Jewish owned stores. Than the Germans started placing anti-Jew laws. When World War 2 started to take place, the Nazis ordered all the Jews to go in areas called ghettos.Many Jews were forced out of their homes to move into a small apartment located in these ghettos.
Concentration Camps
In larger ghettos Nazis would take about 1,000 Jews to a concentration camp. A concentration camp was a camp that basically torture if not kill the Jews. In a concentration camp called Auschwitz they would make the Jews walk up a huge stone stairwell with a bolder (that the Nazis might not even use) then kick the Jew off a cliff and make him/her do it again. Sometimes they would have 100 Jews take a shower in poisonous steam/gas until every one was dead, 20 minutes to get the Jews in the shower room, 20 hours to haul them out.
In this picture the Nazis are liquidating a Jewish ghetto.
Holocaust Survivor Stories
Jeannine Burk
Jeannine was a young child when their was some talk about Jews going to be mistreated. So her father found a place for her sister,brother, and Jeannine herself. her father took her on a street car. they walked a long distance to the house. Jeannine went into the house, that was the last time she saw her father. In this house she was never mistreated but never loved. She would never be aloud on the front of her house, but she was able to occasionally go to the backyard. Jeannine said "I lost a great part of my childhood simply because I was a Jew." The Nazis would parade a lot and every body had to watch, So Jeannine had to hide in the outhouse in the back. Continued by the older sister - "Some neighbors snitched on us. One morning at 5:00 o'clock the **Gestapo** went through the neighbor's house, jumped over the brick wall and pounded on the room where my parents were sleeping. They broke down the door. The Gestapo took my father and threw him in the truck. They wanted to take my mother, but she wouldn't go. My mother told them, "You can shoot me here, but I will not leave my daughter." The Gestapo pulled the blankets off my sister and saw that she was in a body cast. The officer said that they would be back later for them. And that is what they did. By some miracle my mother made one last phone call to a Catholic hospital, and they agreed to take my sister. An ambulance came to get her. The Germans used to take over hospitals for their own use. However, the one place they would not go was the isolation ward. The nuns felt that it would be better for my sister to risk contracting a disease rather than to risk letting the Germans find a Jewish child. My sister lay in bed in the isolation ward for two years. Once my sister was hidden, my mother went to hide in a pre-arranged location. It was a nursing home out in the country. There was a stereotype about Jews, that they had dark hair and hooked noses. My mother was blonde and blue-eyed. She did not fit the picture that they were looking for, so she was safe working as a practical nurse in the country." Jeannine was waiting for her father to come back when later she found out that her father was killed in a gas chamber in Auschwitz. Jeannine's mom got breast cancer so her breast was removed, but it was to late it had already spread and so she died over night at the age of 45. Jeannine had to go to America to be adopted, but that meant leaving her brother and sister (the brother got married and had two kids and the sister was engaged). she really missed them. She arrived on her twelfth birthday weighing 62 pounds. Jeannine was young when she was married she had 2 kids, and then they got divorced. She was alone for a while then she met Maurice who was a widower with 4 children. They got married and had 6 children and 9 grand children. In 1985 she went to a world gathering of Holocaust survivors in Philadelphia. At the gathering she saw her fathers name in the Nazis record book.
Jeannine Burk
10 facts
Auschwitz was the biggest concentration camp.
During World War II, the Nazis forced the Jews out of their homes so that they could live in an area called a ghetto.
The largest ghetto was located in Warsaw, it's highest population of 445,000 was reached in March 1941.
"Although many people refer to all Nazi camps as "concentration camps," there were actually a number of different kinds of camps, including concentration camps, extermination camps, labor camps, prisoner-of-war camps, and transit camps."
1.1 million people were killed in Auschwitz.
"The term "Holocaust," originally from the Greek word "holokauston" which means "sacrifice by fire,"
It is estimated that 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust, 6,000,000 of them were Jews.
The Nazis killed about two thirds of the Jews living in Europe.
"One of the first concentration camps was Dachau, which opened on March 20, 1933"
On April 1, 1933, the Nazis instigated their first action against the Jews.
The Movie Safe Haven and the Warsaw Zoo was a very informing documentary about the Holocaust and what happened in Warsaw. Warsaw had the largest amount of people in Jewish ghettos. This movie talks about how the polish resistance made safe havens for Jews such as the Warsaw Zoo which kept about 300 Jews safe. If Jews were caught smuggling food from the other side of the ghetto they would be killed. The Jews could only eat some bread and a little bit of soup adults could not drink milk, the Nazis considered someone an adult if they were over the age of 6 months.
This is the Star of David. The Jews would have to wear one of these
to show that they were a Jews.
This zoo keeper Jan Zabinski from The Safe
Haven The Warsaw Zoo
Below: Auschwitz concentration camp during World War 2
Nazi soldiers
My Feelings About the Holocaust
I think the Nazis were crazy to torture and kill humans just like themselves. People should be able to believe in any religion they want and not have to be ashamed of it! No matter what religion you believe we are all humans! Overall I think there is really no need for a Holocaust. I think the Holocaust was very sad.
Holocaust
The Holocaust is a very important part in history. Adolf Hitler was elected chancellor of Germany. Soon the Nazis took control of Germany. Adolf Hitler believed that Jews were sub Humans. First the Nazis boycotted all the Jewish owned stores. Than the Germans started placing anti-Jew laws. When World War 2 started to take place, the Nazis ordered all the Jews to go in areas called ghettos.Many Jews were forced out of their homes to move into a small apartment located in these ghettos.
Concentration Camps
In larger ghettos Nazis would take about 1,000 Jews to a concentration camp. A concentration camp was a camp that basically torture if not kill the Jews. In a concentration camp called Auschwitz they would make the Jews walk up a huge stone stairwell with a bolder (that the Nazis might not even use) then kick the Jew off a cliff and make him/her do it again. Sometimes they would have 100 Jews take a shower in poisonous steam/gas until every one was dead, 20 minutes to get the Jews in the shower room, 20 hours to haul them out.
In this picture the Nazis are liquidating a Jewish ghetto.
Holocaust Survivor Stories
Jeannine Burk
Jeannine was a young child when their was some talk about Jews going to be mistreated. So her father found a place for her sister,brother, and Jeannine herself. her father took her on a street car. they walked a long distance to the house. Jeannine went into the house, that was the last time she saw her father. In this house she was never mistreated but never loved. She would never be aloud on the front of her house, but she was able to occasionally go to the backyard. Jeannine said "I lost a great part of my childhood simply because I was a Jew." The Nazis would parade a lot and every body had to watch, So Jeannine had to hide in the outhouse in the back. Continued by the older sister -
"Some neighbors snitched on us. One morning at 5:00 o'clock the **Gestapo** went through the neighbor's house, jumped over the brick wall and pounded on the room where my parents were sleeping. They broke down the door. The Gestapo took my father and threw him in the truck. They wanted to take my mother, but she wouldn't go. My mother told them, "You can shoot me here, but I will not leave my daughter." The Gestapo pulled the blankets off my sister and saw that she was in a body cast. The officer said that they would be back later for them. And that is what they did.
By some miracle my mother made one last phone call to a Catholic hospital, and they agreed to take my sister. An ambulance came to get her. The Germans used to take over hospitals for their own use. However, the one place they would not go was the isolation ward. The nuns felt that it would be better for my sister to risk contracting a disease rather than to risk letting the Germans find a Jewish child. My sister lay in bed in the isolation ward for two years.
Once my sister was hidden, my mother went to hide in a pre-arranged location. It was a nursing home out in the country. There was a stereotype about Jews, that they had dark hair and hooked noses. My mother was blonde and blue-eyed. She did not fit the picture that they were looking for, so she was safe working as a practical nurse in the country." Jeannine was waiting for her father to come back when later she found out that her father was killed in a gas chamber in Auschwitz. Jeannine's mom got breast cancer so her breast was removed, but it was to late it had already spread and so she died over night at the age of 45. Jeannine had to go to America to be adopted, but that meant leaving her brother and sister (the brother got married and had two kids and the sister was engaged). she really missed them. She arrived on her twelfth birthday weighing 62 pounds. Jeannine was young when she was married she had 2 kids, and then they got divorced. She was alone for a while then she met Maurice who was a widower with 4 children. They got married and had 6 children and 9 grand children. In 1985 she went to a world gathering of Holocaust survivors in Philadelphia. At the gathering she saw her fathers name in the Nazis record book.
10 facts
<http://history1900s.about.com/od/holocaust/a/holocaustfacts.htm>
Warsaw Zoo
The Movie Safe Haven and the Warsaw Zoo was a very informing documentary about the Holocaust and what happened in Warsaw. Warsaw had the largest amount of people in Jewish ghettos. This movie talks about how the polish resistance made safe havens for Jews such as the Warsaw Zoo which kept about 300 Jews safe. If Jews were caught smuggling food from the other side of the ghetto they would be killed. The Jews could only eat some bread and a little bit of soup adults could not drink milk, the Nazis considered someone an adult if they were over the age of 6 months.
Some good sites I used
<http://history1900s.about.com/od/holocaust/a/holocaustfacts.htm>
<http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html>
<http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/textline.htm>
<http://remember.org/educate/mtimeline.html>
<http://www.globaldreamers.org/>
This is the Star of David. The Jews would have to wear one of these
to show that they were a Jews.
This zoo keeper Jan Zabinski from The Safe
Haven The Warsaw Zoo
Below: Auschwitz concentration camp during World War 2
Nazi soldiers
My Feelings About the Holocaust
I think the Nazis were crazy to torture and kill humans just like themselves. People should be able to believe in any religion they want and not have to be ashamed of it! No matter what religion you believe we are all humans! Overall I think there is really no need for a Holocaust. I think the Holocaust was very sad.